Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

• An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

  ~ G.K. Chesterton quotes from On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered

  Famous Quotes on: Adventure, Right

• The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

  ~ Joseph Campbell quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Experience, Joseph Campbell

• Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

  ~ Morihei Ueshiba quotes from The Art of Peace

  Famous Quotes on: Goals, Life, Win

• A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

  Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, Non-attachment, Warrior

• Celebrate any progress. Don’t wait to get perfect.

  ~ Ann McGee Cooper quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Progress, Celebrate, Perfect

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